Junto just launched their Kickstarter campaign today and I thought you all might be interested in it. I’ll just highlight some points from their campaign to give you an idea of what it’s about:

"Junto is a collective effort to move beyond the restrictive norms, addictive qualities, mental health consequences, and privacy concerns produced by social media platforms today.

Through integrating a consciously designed interface, distributed technology, and a nonprofit approach, we’ve created a new breed of social media in the spirit of authenticity. Our intention is to embrace a full spectrum of intelligences and styles of communication. We invite all of you to help accelerate this shift towards a decentralized internet and cultivate an atmosphere that inspires each individual’s most natural form of expression."

"Things we’re doing less of:

No advertisements

No rating systems, like buttons, or mandatory follower counts

No AI-powered feeds that reinforce existing beliefs

We don’t own, track, or sell your data

We don’t censor information outside of the legal scope of our terms and services.

Things we’re doing more of:

Creating an intuitive, human-centric interface

Identity verification accessible to all members

Ability to direct your own discovery of information

You customize the organization and content of your feeds and filters

A dynamic center for expression with an ever-expanding number of mediums

Our technology is open-source; our codebase is transparent for everyone to review to make sure we are keeping our word and open to any developers wanting to contribute

In the near future, we will provide people with the ability to donate to their favorite independent creators"